HL Deb 24 April 1975 vol 359 cc1039-42

APPLICATION OF ENACTMENTS RELATING TO COMPENSATION ON COMPULSORY PURCHASE, ETC., TO CASES UNDER PART I OR PART II OF THIS SCHEDULE.

Compensation

14. —(1) It is hereby declared that where, under Part I or II of this Schedule, a compulsory purchase order is to be treated as made under Part VII of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1966 or Part VI of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972, compensation for the compulsory acquisition of the land comprised in the compulsory purchase order is to be assessed in accordance with the provisions applying to a compulsory acquisition under the said Part VII (or, as the case may be, the said Part VI).

(2) Where, under Part I or II of this Schedule, land or any interest in land within any area is to be treated as appropriated by a local authority to the purposes of the said Part VII, compensation for its compulsory acquisition shall (where it increases the amount) be assessed or reassessed in accordance with the provisions applying to a compulsory acquisition under the said Part VII.

(3) Where, under paragraph 2 of Part I of this Schedule, or under Part II thereof, any interest in land acquired by a local authority by agreement (after the declaration of a clearance area, housing treatment area or housing action area which relates to that land) is to be treated as appropriated for the purposes of the said Part VII—

  1. (a) compensation shall (where sub-paragraph (2) above would have increased the amount) be assessed and paid as if the acquisition were a compulsory acquisition, under Part III of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1966, Part I of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1969 or Part II of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1974 (as the case may be), to which the said sub-paragraph (2) applied; but
  2. (b) there shall be deducted from the amount of compensation so payable any amount previously paid in respect of the acquisition of that interest by the authority.

(4) Where sub-paragraph (2) or (3) above applies, the local authority shall serve on the person entitled to the compensation a notice in the prescribed form giving particulars of the amount of compensation payable in accordance with the provisions applying to a compulsory acquisition under the said Part VII, and if the person served does not, within twenty-one days from service of the notice, accept the particulars, or if he disputes the amount stated, the question of disputed compensation shall be referred to the Lands Tribunal for Scotland.

(5) The notice shall be served not later than six months after—

  1. (a) the relevant date, as defined in paragraph 1(4) of this Schedule, or
  2. (b) the date on which the rehabilitation order becomes operative for the purposes of Part II of this Schedule,
(as the case may be), and paragraph 19 of Schedule 1 to the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947 (service of notices) shall apply to the notice.

(6) Sub-paragraph (2) above shall be left out of account in considering whether, under sections 117 and 118 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845, compensation has been properly paid for the land; and accordingly sub-paragraph (2) above shall not prevent an acquiring authority from remaining n undisputed possession of the land.

(7) Where sub-paragraph (2) above makes an increase in compensation to be assessed in accordance with sections 56 to 60 and 63 of the said Act of 1845 (absent and untraced owners)—

  1. (a) a notarial instrument executed under section 76 of that Act before the latest date for service of a notice under sub-paragraph (4) above shall not be invalid because the 1041 increase in compensation has not been paid, and
  2. (b) it shall be the duty of the local authority, not later than six months after the said date, to proceed under the said sections and pay the proper additional amount into the bank.

(8) Any sum payable by virtue of this paragraph shall carry interest at the rate prescribed under section 40 of the Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1963 from the time of entry by the local authority on the land, or from vesting of the land or interest, whichever is the earlier, until payment.

(9) In this paragraph, references to an increase in compensation shall be read as if any payments under—

  1. (a) section 49 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1966, section 11 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1969 or section 30 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1974 (payments in respect of well-maintained houses and payments to owner-occupiers),
  2. (b) section 160 of the said Act of 1966 or section 38 of the Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1963 (allowances to persons displaced),
  3. (c) sections 18 to 20 of the said Act of 1969 (payments to owner-occupiers and others in respect of unfit houses purchased or demolished), and
  4. (d) section 34 of the Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973 (disturbance payments for persons without compensatable interests),
were, to the extent that they were made to the person in question, compensation in respect of the compulsory purchase.

(10) In this paragraph, "prescribed" means prescribed under section 197 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1966, and the references to that Act in that section shall include references to this paragraph.

Extension of time limits for exercising powers under certain compulsory purchase orders

15. In section 116 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1845 (time limits for exercising powers under compulsory purchase orders), there shall be added at the end the following paragraph— For the purposes of this section no account shall be taken of any period during which an authority are, by virtue of Schedule 10A to the Housing Act 1974 (which relates among other things to buildings in clearance or housing treatment or housing action areas), prevented from serving notice to treat under section 17 of this Act.".".

16. In Schedule 14 to the Housing Act 1974, in paragraph 2(b) (transitional provision concerning loans by the Housing Corporation), for "(c) "there shall be substituted" (e)".")

The Commons agree to this Amendment but propose the following Amendment thereto:—

Line 768, at end insert (" (in substitution for the words originally added by section 116 of this Act) ").

Lord HUGHES

My Lords, I beg to move that tills House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 7 to the Lords Amendment No. 6. This Amendment relates to paragraph 18 of the new Schedule 2A which re-enacts a large part of the Housing Act 1974 to clarify its application to Scotland. This Amendment is essentially a technical drafting point which should be covered before the Bill is finalised. My Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 7.

Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in the said Amendment.—(Lord Hughes.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.

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